He also has one of my favorite quotes: If one wishes to understand the behavior of animals, one must take account of their individuality, annoying as this may be for those who prefer the tidiness of physics, chemistry, and mathematical formulations. -Donald Griffin

Greg Priest@gregpriest.bsky.social · 2d ago

Donald Griffin, discoverer of bat echolocation, was born OTD 1915. I imagine “small mammals enough like ourselves to feel that I could understand what their lives would be like, and yet different enough to make it a sort of adventure and exploration to see what they were doing.” 🐋🌱🧪 #HistSTM

"When the first of August came round, the Professor realized he had pleasantly trifled away nearly two months at a task which should have taken little more than a week." -Willa Cather (from The Professor's House, 1925)

Are you blind or partially sighted? We're setting up a working group to help us develop some large 3D insect models, to be used as tactile resources in the Museum & we'd love you to join us! All the details are on our website. https://ow.ly/PUu550ZrmKX University of Cambridge Museums

@ptrrupprecht.bsky.social providing the new go-to GECI reference. Read when doing calcium imaging. rdcu.be/fwF82

Spike inference from calcium imaging data acquired with GCaMP8 indicators

Nature Methods - In this Analysis, Rupprecht et al. investigate the behavior of GCaMP8 variants in spike inference using several different algorithms. They highlight the role of the...

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The final paper from my dissertation (!) is out now in #eNeuro @sfnjournals.bsky.social

Complex Three-Dimensional Rearing Environments Amplify Compensatory Plasticity Following Early Blindness

The neocortex has a remarkable capacity to alter its functional organization and connectivity in response to sensory loss, particularly if this loss occurs early in life. A key question is whether thi...

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I wrote about the need for this kind of faculty development several years ago, grateful that @alleninstitute.org had the same vision: www.cell.com/neuron/fullt...?

The next generation of neuroscientists needs to learn how to code, and we need new ways to teach them

In this NeuroView, Juavinett outlines the challenges of teaching the next generation of neuroscientists how to code, arguing for more innovative ways to bring discipline-relevant coding into the class...

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𝗡𝗲𝘂𝗿𝗮𝗹 𝘁𝗿𝗮𝘃𝗲𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘄𝗮𝘃𝗲𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝗰𝗼𝗿𝘁𝗲𝘅: 𝗡𝗲𝘁𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸 𝗺𝗲𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗶𝘀𝗺𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗽𝗼𝘁𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗿𝗼𝗹𝗲𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝗻𝗲𝘂𝗿𝗮𝗹 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗽𝘂𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 A must read for systems neuroscience. #neuroskyence doi.org/10.1016/j.ne...

Talks will be selected from abstracts and we encourage submissions from early career researchers. Please use this link (forms.gle/Czs4S6NP8vxB...) to register and submit abstracts. The deadline for abstract submission is October 5 and selected speakers will be notified by October 19. 3/n

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👏Say goodbye to DREADDs limitations. The new PSAM chemogenetic system offers direct ion-channel control with no off-target effects from CNO. 🔹 Activation or inhibition of neurons 🔹 Reversible, fast, and specific 👇Now available as ready-to-use AAVs from BrainVTA. #Chemogenetics #AAV #Neuroscience

Two-photon calcium imaging. What makes for good data? How can we optimize experiments to get good data? New post labrigger.com/blog/2026/07... and new free web apps from @filip-tomaska.bsky.social (1/8)

Bay Area people, please share this with anybody in your life who loves puppets. There is an estate sale coming up that has a ton of old puppets and if they don't sell they'll probably go in the trash and that makes me sad estatesales.org/estate-sales... I need these puppets to be saved!!!!!

Pull On Every String: Puppets, Precision & Prose in Palo Alto | EstateSales.org

View photos, items for sale, dates and address for this online auction in Palo Alto, CA. Online bidding ends on Thu. Jul 23 at 5:30PM US/Pacific. Sale conducted by Caring Transitions of Central San ...

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Registration is now open for the Paris Circuit Dynamics Conference & Workshop 2026! Neuromodulation of Neuronal Circuits: From Behavior to Computation Paris Brain Institute 16–17 September 2026 Registration is free (but required): www.paris-circuits.eu

Paris Circuit Dynamics

This conference will bring together leading experts to discuss how neuromodulatory systems shape neuronal circuit dynamics, behavior, and computation. The program will focus on how neuromodulators suc...

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🚨 This proposal to cap total NIH RPGs per PI includes R00, R03, R35, and DP2. grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

I just gave a short tutorial on what is a spiking neural network and how to train one. From zero to a trained network in one hour. Slides and code you can run in Colab at this repo: github.com/neural-recko... 🤖🧠🧪

GitHub - neural-reckoning/cambridge-fens-chen-summer-school-2026: Code and slides for 2026 FENS Chen Summer School on Learning with spikes

Code and slides for 2026 FENS Chen Summer School on Learning with spikes - neural-reckoning/cambridge-fens-chen-summer-school-2026

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MIT ACCESS is an opportunity for undergraduates to explore cutting-edge research and graduate education in science and engineering. See for yourself what grad life is like at MIT! Applications due Aug 1: access.mit.edu @mitcheme.bsky.social @mitchemistry.bsky.social

OMG there are so many bears on #bearcam rn explore.org/livecams/bro...

This theory proposes that a deep cortical layer (layer 6b) may act like a coordinator, integrating top-down signals and neuromodulators. The layer 6b theory of attention www.cell.com/neuron/fullt... #neuroscience

The layer 6b theory of attention

Zolnik et al. propose that the long-overlooked neocortical layer 6b (L6b) supports a key circuit for attention and related cognitive functions. L6b integrates neuromodulatory and cortical feedback to ...

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Categories groups things into meaningful concepts. This review looks at how rodents do this. What they can and can’t learn, which brain circuits are involved, and how studying them could reveal the basic neural mechanisms. doi.org/10.1146/annu... #neuroscience

Learning and Representation of Categories in the Rodent Brain

Category learning—the ability to group individual objects, experiences, and concepts into higher-level abstract representations—is fundamental to fast, flexible decision-making and generalization of k...

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I have always believed that ideas from basic systems neuroscience could eventually help people. But for years that felt more like hope than reality. But look! This is one of the most personally satisfying papers my lab has produced because we’re getting there. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... 🧪🧵 1/

We're proud to introduce Brainbow, a new Slack workspace for LGBTQIA+ people in neuroscience worldwide. Brainbow aims to provide a safe space, even for those in the closet (emails & names are optional). It also includes channels for communities within the LGBTQIA+ umbrella (eg, trans/non-binary) 1/2

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We're hiring! NBIO is looking for a tenure-track Assistant Professor whose research & teaching will strengthen our department. 🧠 Deadline: 9/30/2026 Apply → apply.interfolio.com/187735 Please share with your network!

John Tuthill@tuthill.bsky.social · last mo.

My department, Neurobiology and Biophysics at the University of Washington (nbio.uw.edu), is hiring a new tenure-track Assistant Professor, application deadline 09/30/26. It's a broad search — molecular to organismal, all of neuroscience/physiology/biophysics welcome. apply.interfolio.com/187735

It is extremely important to do this!! It's not just the Society for Neuroscience that has helpful instructions. Other scientific orgs and non-profits do, too.

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The comment period on the proposed OMB rule closes July 13. Your input can help protect merit-based science funding. Join fellow #NeuroAdvocates and submit a comment today: vist.ly/59mbt #neurosky #neuroskyence #scisky #medsky

Excited to share this preprint from @ianoldenburg.bsky.social . To evoke movement with holo stim, you need the right pattern at the right time! Interestingly, the preparatory state before spont motion is not the same as the state permissive for evoked motion. Dig in! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

The Importance of Synchrony in the Neural Control of Movement

Throughout the mammalian cortex, populations of neurons must work together to enact behaviors. While population recordings in motor cortex have revealed many aspects of when neurons fire during behavi...

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NIH grants have been under political scrutiny since early 2025. But what does the screening process actually look like? What is being flagged? I spent a month digging into leaked docs and emails. We've published the 235-word list that are being flagged by an internal AI tool. And so much more. 🧵

Inside the new political screening that’s stalling NIH grants

Mandatory reviews by top health officials and checks for 235 disfavoured terms have left hundreds of vetted grant applications in administrative limbo.

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NEW! Explore @thetransmitter.bsky.social’s newest tool, Neuro Funding Finder. Discover grants, fellowships and funding opportunities for neuroscience research at all career stages. Find your next funding source and apply, all in one place: thetransmitter.org/neuroscience... #neuroskyence

2026 BRAIN Initiative Conference | Call For Submissions Symposia submission deadline: June 21 Abstract submission deadline: June 28 #Conference #Neuroscience #Interdisciplinary #Collaboration ./14 www.complexitycat.org/posts/BRAIN-...

🟧 Orange is the new green?? 🟧 New sensitive orange calcium indicator (🟠OCaMP) now out in Nature Comms: www.nature.com/articles/s41... Highlights ⚡ Detects single action potentials in vivo 🔬 Optimized for 1030 nm imaging 📸 Highly photostable, minimal photoswitching 🌈 Multiplex with green biosensors

A 20 year study on 2 NIH diversity programs in Science Advances shows they doubled undergrads' odds of getting a Ph.D. That is, before the funding for those programs and for the study itself was terminated last year: www.statnews.com/2026/06/17/n...

NIH diversity programs doubled undergraduates’ odds of getting a Ph.D., 20-year study finds

A new study found that two diversity-oriented programs supported by the NIH doubled the odds that an undergraduate would earn a Ph.D.

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